Away off in the distance a dense white misty vapor hung flat and low over the lagoon and thickets of mangroves, with not a breath of air to disturb the noxious fog or quiver a leaf in the silent groves.
The morning swims in the lagoon had thickened the red corpuscle.
Out of the dark unruffled sapphire of the lagoon came vertical flashes of burning silver, singly and in groups.
The Foam's boats reached the entrance to the lagoon just as the brig dropped her anchor, it being considered dangerous to approach nearer the shore.
Resistance was vain, so the poor fellows were compelled to work in hoisting the cargo out of their own ship, and afterwards in pulling up the lagoon to the schooner.
One morning, while the yards were still on deck and the sails unbent, notice was given from our look-out at the mouth of the lagoon that a sail was in sight, about two miles in the offing.
The lagoon waters were smooth like glass, and pale, and unflushed as yet with the coming sunset.
The crystal peace of the lagoon was shattered for Peter.
Peter refused Urquhart's suggestion that they should have tea together on the island, and they crossed over to the lagoon side and got into their waiting gondola.
Rising but a few feet above the surface of the ocean, it forms a narrow, unbroken, nearly circular ring, surrounding a central lagoon of quiet water.
When at a considerable distance, leaving a lagoonof quiet water between them and the volcanic island, they are termed barrier reefs.
When we came to the point where they ceased, and the false lagoon had lain, I should have felt utterly lost.
The false lagoon was the first of several that began to be visible in the west, swelling and joining hands over the ribs of sand that divided them.
Lake Titicaca is only a few miles distant, and one of its long arms reaches back into the country in a vast, shallow lagoon covered with a water growth through which swim myriads of fearless water-fowls.
About a week later in the shallow lagoon of one of the great lakes that are known to exist in that part, although no white man has yet penetrated to them, he saw a long neck raise itself out of the water--a long neck!
We worked hard until noon the next day in the vain attempt to haul the Riddle from the Perdido, when I launched the duck-boat on Big Lagoon and rowed easterly in search of assistance, leaving Saddles behind to guard our stores.
At daylight we took to our oars, and rowed out of the end of the lagooninto Pensacola Bay.
When six miles from camp, I discovered upon the high north shore of the lagoon the clearing and cabin of Rev.
The boisterous weather kept us on the beach until Friday, when we launched our boats and rowed along the coast three miles to a point opposite a lagoon which was separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land.
A week later the little vessel dropped her anchor in the lagoon again, and Rua Manu and his crew came ashore to seek him.
The waters of the lagoonwere as smooth as glass and as clear.
No ship, they told us, had ever entered the lagoon but Bully Hayes' brig, and that was nine years before.
With Rua Manu and two others of his faithful native crew, Brantley walked quickly across the island to the lagoon to where the boat lay.
We got into Vahitahi lagoon about ten days ago, and I took Miss Brantley ashore.
Nerida steered us out to the north end of the lagoon till we reached a spot where the water suddenly deepened.
By the time they had finished, however, it was past one o'clock, and I concluded that we could not leave the lagoon till the following morning.
Six months later, the local trader of Apaian wrote to me, and told me that Evers "has improved the passage into the lagoon very much.
My course from the lagoon island had been north half west distant 30 miles.
The country continued hilly and the northernmost land, the same we had seen from the lagoon island, appeared like downs, sloping towards the sea.
Sailing nearer, we perceived an extraordinary rolling of the sea; which bursting into the lagoon through an adjoining breach in the reef, surged toward Juam in enormous billows.
A high, green crag, toppling over its base, and flinging a cavernous shadow upon the lagoon beneath, bubbling with the moisture that dropped.
By watering early, a long drive was made during the afternoon, followed by a dry camp, and the lagoon where the wild horses had been sighted was reached at evening the next day.
The lagoon was on the extreme upper end of the range, fully fifteen miles from headquarters; and as all the saddle stock must be brought in, the day's work required riding a wide circle.
The kettles were boiled and breakfast eaten, and the cavalry recrossed the lagoon to the beach to give their horses water at the tanks there.
They said that during the day the 19th and Mounted Infantry had made a reconnaissance across a lagoon which lay between the beach and the country behind.
The next morning the Gordon Highlanders and Irish Fusiliers, accompanied by a squadron of Hussars and the Mounted Infantry, with a couple of small guns, crossed the lagoon and occupied the intrenchment.
Crossing a shallow lagoonthey were upon the sandy beach.
The sun hung a foot or so above the water, a huge ball of dull red fire, and from St. Mary's out to the horizon's rim the sea stretched a rippling lagoon of the colour of claret.
The wet level of ground looks just like a lagoon and the arches a Venice palace above it.
The ways and turnings were as familiar to him as ever, and would have been unforgotten if he had never taken the trouble to cross the lagoon again, to his dying day.
I saw the billows roll across the smooth lagoon like a gigantic Eager.
We crossed the dancing wavelets of the port; but when we passed under the lee of Pelestrina, the breeze failed, and the lagoon was once again a sheet of undulating glass.
The lagoon reflected their deep colours till they reached the port.
With an ebb-tide, the water of the lagoon runs past the mulberry gardens of this hamlet like a river.
And beautiful again are the calm settings of fair weather, when sea and sky alike are cheerful, and the topmost blades of the lagoon grass, peeping from the shallows, glance like emeralds upon the surface.
This shock of hair, cut in flakes, and falling wilfully, reminded me of thelagoon grass when it darkens in autumn upon uncovered shoals, and sunset gilds its sombre edges.
As we broke into the lagoon behind the Redentore, the islands in front of us, S.
The cliff-like declivity over the head of the lagoon is the Korotini Bluff.
The lagoon of Batticaloa, and indeed all the still waters of this district, are remarkable for the numbers and prodigious size of the crocodiles which infest them.
From time to time he kept adding dry fuel to his smouldering pile; and he never ceased to keep a keen eye both on the lagoon and the reef, in case an assault should be made upon them suddenly by land or water.
If any man touch my spirits, whom I have brought from my home in the sun in a fiery ship, before I bid him to-morrow, overturn his canoe, and drown him in lagoon or spring or ocean.
The Australasian's gig entered the lagoon through the fringing reef by its narrow seaward mouth, and rowed steadily for the landing place on the main island.
It was on the reef they had landed, and from it they now looked across the calm lagoon with doubtful eyes toward the central island.
Within, the lagoon spread its calm lake-like surface away to the white coral shore of the central atoll.
The reef was no doubt circular, and it enclosed within itself a second or central island, divided from it by a shallow lagoon of calm, still water.
I saw smoke to the south-ward, and, on proceeding towards it, we came to a fine lagoon of fresh water in the bed of the creek.
We travelled about four miles north 30 degrees west, over plains and an open undulating box and raspberry jam tree country, to the lagoon which my companions had discovered.
The geese flew past at night from an openlagoon to the westward, to more confined ponds at the head of the fern swamp to the eastward.
Spring took hold of the emu, which dragged him to the lagoon we had left, pursued by Charley on foot.
My companions, however, were fortunate enough to find a fresh waterlagoon about three miles west of our last camp.
At a lagoonwhich we passed in the commencement of the stage, Brown shot three more geese; thus disclosing to us the haunts of those numerous flights we had seen.
The lagoon was covered with small white Nymphaeas, Damasoniums, and yellow Utricularias; and on its banks were heaps of mussel-shells.
We came to Ironbark ridges, and to the very spot where the natives had been burning the grass, but no watercourse, nor lagoon was seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lagoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cistern; dam; dike; fishpond; lagoon; plash; pond; pool; puddle; reservoir; sump; tank; well
